My #OpenStreetMap focus today is: trash cans, picnic tables. I am proud to recognise a certain racoon-y-ness in my actions.
I am too sleepy to do an internet. Glad that I realised before someone had to tell me, tbh.
But actually, the chronology of leisure=picnic_table in OpenStreetMap is even more beautiful. https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/leisure=picnic_table#chronology There are like 150000 of them mapped, and they can't be stopped.
Contribute to this beautiful development by mapping a picnic table near you~✨
This here looks interesting, but I didn't find the answer to my question in it. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0150533
There's a survey on how members of the OpenStreetMap community (in the widest sense, as I read it) perceive recent actions of the OSM Foundation. Available in a bunch of languages: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2021-January/085953.html
It's really heartwarming to see so many members at @imagecaptionspls helping out those who care about accessibility, but can't write captions themselves due to lack of spoons.
This is what the Fediverse should be about. About human connection. About helping each other. Thank you all, for being the bright light in an otherwise not-too-great start of the day.
And to everyone who reads this, don't forget to be awesome! 💙
I don't think I'm following people who are saying these things, but obviously I am seeing them because I follow people boosting them. And I understand that impulse: I used to see this only from sighted/abled people but now I'm starting to see it from disabled people too.
It's very tempting, as someone with privilege, want an easy answer for how's Good to behave from someone without that privilege. I'm sorry to be here telling you It's a Bit More Complicated Than That, but I'm afraid it is.
Sure not writing image descriptions is one kind of action that can make a community less welcoming to disabled people.
But honestly, hardline proclamations that everyone MUST write image descriptions or they're BAD (which I'm seeing more often)...also feel pretty unwelcoming!
Even as someone who benefits from image descriptions, I don't benefit from the lack of nuance around disability issues. I don't benefit from being used as a stick to beat people with who aren't writing image descriptions.
when we were backpacking we got told not to take quick standing breaks cause just standing still burns a shitton of calories esp with a backpack on and like if we were gonna take a break we needed to take them off and sit down or we were just burning calories without making progress anyway these days i think all the time about how difficult it is to find ways to Stop Doing things that isn't in some way still tiring
I am trying to be softer now. I like niche scifi stories. Also anarchism. And cats. Genderqueer, trans, bi, among many other things. Computers are my scary, distant friends.
Very scared semi-lorge cat who turns into tiny house cat on full moons.
Follow requests are welcome, I will accept many of them.